Harley

I agree with everything said. But if /pw has a timer surely crims putting a heavy weapon in their loadout should have a timer?

Before reading this story, I recommend reading 'The Big Heist' first. Enjoy! Project 'Purloin' After her first failed attempt at leading her team to a successful bank robbery, Harley felt defeated but inspired to do better. Ever since that day, she's been planning for their next heist. What went wrong? What should I change? Questions like that flooded her mind for months, up until the night before. The night before, Harley stayed up all night in her house drawing up the plans and checking her equipment. She bought a map from a local store and placed it on her old stained coffee table After being finished drawing up the plans, she writes 'Project Purloin' at the top and folds up the map. She carries it with her and walks over to her bag which is laying on the sofa nearby. She picks up the bag and drops it down onto her old, dusty carpet and begins to fill it with supplies along with the map. Once the bag was full of gloves, masks and the map. She tossed it near her door and walked into her bedroom. Exchausted, she collapsed onto her bed, taking her pistol from her holster, holding onto it tightly. She presses the button on the side of her gun to release the magazine and starts to count each round, calming herself down, before cleaning her gun. "Good as new". She felt ready. She left all of her things in her room and walked into the bathroom. She ripped off the mask on her face and looks at herself in the mirror mounted on the wall. Harley took a few deep breaths while the tap began to pour water in the background, splashing in the sink. She bends down and splashes her face with cold water. She looks at herself once again in the mirror. "You can do this. They trust you. They believe in you. You've got this!" The Storm Approaches Harley called for everyone to meet her a few hours before the job. They all got together at [REDACTED] and discussed the plans. Everyone seemed to understand and had faith that Harley knew what she was doing. Harley tossed her bag onto the ground. It made a loud thud sound as it landed on the ground, it was clear that it was full and heavy. "Gloves on everyone." Harley said as she nodded towards the bag. Everyone approached the bag, one by one collecting a pair of gloves and a mask. With frequencies shared and teams assigned, the team began their haul towards the bank. Upon arrival, everyone got into their places and signalled the inside team to go in. Harley was on the inside team, leading them to success and giving the countdown. After everyone was ready, Harley gave the final countdown. Time felt like it froze right before she gave the countdown. Her mind started to remind her of everything that can go wrong. Her heart began racing, her palms getting sweaty, she began to remember the last time she was in this position; behind a shotgun, looking like a failure after realising the bank was empty. This cannot happen again, we have to be successful this time. "5, 4, 3, 2... ONE!" the coundown was 5 seconds but felt like hours, on "ONE" Harley and her allies began to aim their guns at the tellers, and the team started to work on the door and vault. The door was easy work, Harley got behind the desk and knocked out the tellers. The alarm started to ring as they continued to work on the vault. Harley ordered her team to get ready on the door. She started to breathe heavily as she saw more police cruisers show up. First it was one sherrif, then two, then the whole police force was there! The vault opened almost simultaneously with the police breaching the door. Harley shot down the officer without any hesitation, two shots from her shotgun made the officer collapse to the floor, his body mutilated from the shots. After the shots were fired, more officers stormed the bank. The outside team sprayed down their backup and only 2 officers made it inside the bank alive. The two officers who breached the bank had the advantage on Harley and her team however. They breached the bank and rushed them, shooting down Harley and her allies, killing everyone inside apart from her. Harley held onto her wounds, holding heavy pressure clinging onto life. She blacked out and woke up in the back of an ambulance, police following it. She had failed and she was going to pay for it. After being treated at the hospital she was taken down to DOC, where she spent 8 years in custody and paid $70,000 in damages. After being processed in DOC, her face lit up as she saw two of her allies alive, waiting for her in the cellblock. They caught up from what they remember about the job, sat down at the abandoned poker table and immediately began to discuss what went wrong and what they can do next time. Watch the video here: ALL INFORMATION IN THIS POST AND ALL POSTS IN THIS THREAD IS OOC! No information or knowledge gained from this thread should be used IC. Anyone seen using this information ICly will be Metagaming.

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Either that, or make the phone start at the bottom, rather than scrolling down when you click on a converdation. That way, it looks like a regular text thread. If you wanna look at old messages, you can scroll up

Firstly I would like to say that I appreciate all of the work that NBDY and the development team have put into this new Phone Update! It's been an update that we have all been waiting for and asking about for such a long time and this update shows that the development team is starting to listen to the community about what we want, which is fantastic! With that said, I would like to suggest that group chats get added to this new phone. It's a feature that was suggested in the original suggestion thread that I assume inspired this update and I think it was one of the main features that everyone was excited to see in this new update! Original Thread: https://forum.eclipse-rp.net/topic/35569-phone-overhaul/ Now that the phone is a phone that was actually developed by the Eclipse Development team and not just a phone from GitHub, I believe this phone can now be developed and worked on whenever a new addition needs to be added to it, rather than reinventing the phone whenever something new could be added. This means that new features such as group chats should be easier to add to the phone and wouldn't require months of development to add a small feature, which is fantastic! Group Chats are quite a small addition, but something that is extremely needed. The main group of people who would gain from this addition are Criminals, via sharing new radio frequencies, however I can see lots of people using group chats for more than just sharing frequencies. It can be used to set up meetings, tell people a time and place to arrive, or you could just make a group chat between some friends to talk together. I think this would add a bigger and beter social part of this server, it would allow people to communicate when they're busy or at work, and would just make the world feel more alive and social. ex. I don't think this would take much work to develop, seeing as the text threads have already been developed for one on one, just need to make an option to add multiple people to that group thread. I'm sure there are multiple different tutorials online showing how to do this properly. I think quite a few people were disappointed with the lack of this feature with this new phone update, and I believe this should be added as soon as possible in order to improve quality of life for the whole playerbase. I'm open to comments with further suggestions and discussions, but I would love for this additition to be given attention to by NBDY and the development team. If you agree with this suggestion, leave a +1 and any comments you have. I'd love for this discussion to gain traction in order to get the attention of developers.

+1. Lots of GTA features not being used by ECRP, such as this.

HUGE +1 from me. It makes no sense why OOC money is used for IC LifeInvader... I also agree that things like a verified badge could be fine with OOC money. But I think if that's the case, give people who are paying for VIP on the server a verified badge? Surely that makes more sense than having two subscriptions for the same server?

Change ASAP please it's awful!

The Big Heist The Night Before Harley met with [REDACTED] the night before, they planned to rob a bank the next day to gain money for them to buy more equipment for their money laundering business they planned to do later on during the week. Harley left that meeting excited but nervous. She hopped on her Hakuchou Drag, feeling anxious and drove to the Void HQ. She texted Randy, asked him to meet her in the HQ so she can go over the plans so he can rally the team together through the night shift. Randy explained to her he has been excited for this day for a while, his face lit up like a kid on Christmas morning! He immediately opened his phone and texted everyone from Void and other groups they were allied with to explain the plans and when and where to meet. Harley, confident in Randy, left their meeting feeling less anxious, drove to her apartment and went to sleep. The Calm before the Storm Harley woke up the next morning excited for what was to come. She checked her phone and saw over 20 text messages from everyone telling her that they were in and they would be there for her. She smiled and get out of bed, ready to meet with all her loyal allies and members to go over the plan in detail. She texted higherups in Void and Allies to meet at [REDACTED] to talk about the plans together. While she waited for them to arrive she got out the map of Los Santos she was given when she first arrived to the city, it was some weird tourist kind of map, it showed you where all the local banks, food markets, etc were. She spread the map on her coffee table, got out her sharpie collection and started drawing out the plan for each bank. When the guests arrived they discussed the plan for each bank and all came to the agreement that the Route 68 bank would be the best one to hit, it had the most exit points and the incompetent Serriffs Department would be the first responders rather than the Police Department in the city. The plan was set, hit the Route 68 bank, have 5 inside, 2 on the tellers, one on the side door, two working on vault. They all were confident in this plan, they all agreed this would be the heist they would carry out. They packed up the map and took it to [REDACTED] to explain the plan to the others. Everyone gathered around Harley as she placed the map down on the ground and tossed a bag full of leather gloves, ammo and weapons. The bag made an audible thud when it landed on the ground, everyone then decided to shut up and pay attention. "Everyone Listen Up", Harley said shortly after the bag hitting the ground. "Tonight we are all going to be committing a serious felony. We're not here to mess around, we're not here to make a mess. We're all here to rob a bank and we're gonna do it clean. Anybody who has a problem with that, see yourself out". You could cut the tension with a knife as everyone remained silent and shuffled around as they got more anxious. "Good, that was all of your last chances to turn back. You're in with us now." "Tonight, we're hitting the Route 68 bank. We're going to do this clean and we're gonna do it smart. Each and every one of you needs to trust eachother that you have eachothers backs. We're putting everyone here at incredible risk so I need you all to trust eachother so you don't make any mistakes." Everyone seemed to remain silent but you could see in their faces they understood the situation. They discussed who would be inside the bank, who would be on crowd control, who would be on the vault. Everyone else was on damage control. Outside, on roofs, in bushes, in vehicles. Whatever you need to do to be ready for if it got messy. It ended up to be about 15 people outside, and 5 inside. "Everyone gloves on, I don't want you leaving prints around like we're amateurs. Load your weapons, use the ammo you need from here. We're in and out in 5 minutes everyone. Let's go!" - Harley The Final Countdown When showing up to the bank, you could tell everyone was getting nervous as they pulled their heavy weapons out of their bags inside the bank. Everyone inside could be seen adjusting their stance or their grasps on their guns, their knees falling weak, their arms feeling heavy, their palms becoming sweaty. Harley made one last speech to her allies inside. "I trust each and every one of you, and I know you trust me. We're gonna do this right and we're gonna do this clean. We're not going to fail, we have got this in the bag. Everyone good?" Each of them responding with an excited acknowledgement. Harley explained that she will count down from 5. On 1, they will all begin their tasks. On the outside she seemed strong, she needed to be for everyone working with her to be confident in her. On the inside she was anxious, her heart was pumping like crazy and her chest felt tight. As she counted down her breaths became shorter and faster. This was it, no turning back now. "5... 4... 3... 2... ONE!" Her worst nightmare had come true. She had an awful feeling that Council were onto her plans from the very beginning and right after her final countdown, they were told by the tellers that the bank was robbed shortly before they turned up. Harley had no time to question who robbed the bank, she rallyed her team together and ensured, before they got unwanted attention that every single one of them was safely away from the bank, away from Route 68 and safely in their vehicles before doing so herself only AFTER seeing the last of her allies leave the bank safely. Although the robbery was a fail, it felt like a win to Harley. She had gotten her whole team together, planned the entire heist and got everyone away from the situation safely when things turned sour. Although the heist never went through, she had found people that trust her, she knew that the 20 people who were around her when she arranged the whole thing believed in her and felt confident in her leading them. She knew she had a strong team and she can be confident that when they plan on doing this again, she can rely on them. She then drove back home, sat down on her sofa and began to draw to calm her nerves. She drew the only thing that could come to her mind after tonights events. Family.

An easy way to prevent this is a requirement of a certain reputation to view the topic on the forums, etc. Good thinking tho

First of all I wanna start this post by saying I greatly appreciate the work the developers put into Eclipse. I understand the difficult work you have to go through and I appreciate that you do it for the community. That being said, I think I speak for a lot of people when I say that you're a little out of touch with some of the community, take the latest update for example. So I thought maybe a good idea would be for the developers to be more open with the community about their roadmap or development plan and allow the community to vote to decide which new update/development is made first. For example each week/month/2months NBDY posts a poll on Discord or the Forums with a list of a few things that he is working on or is planning on working on in the next few months. The community can then share their thoughts, opinions and preference for what feature comes first. For example: "Hey @everyone here is this month's development poll. Please vote on your favourite features" Phone Overhaul Crim Update (ATM Robberies, Drug Dealer, etc) Painkillers 2.0 Turfs This way the community can decide what features are best to be implimented sooner. This poll can then be used to show which suggestions have been recognised and considered for the roadmap. Obviously this idea would not work for things like bug fixes or big development jobs that need months to fix, like the VOIP bugs we all know and hate since the 1.1 update, so bug fixes would not be part of these feature votes, but physical features that just improve the quality of life of the server, should be up to the people who live on it. Thanks for reading & considering. - A Very Enthusastic Player

+1 too many new players joining the server without knowing what RP is.

So I think everyone can agree that this new UI change came out of nowhere, nobody asked for it and we're all really confused about why it came around? "If it ain't broke, don't fix it" What follows is a list of improvements that I think should take priority over adding a new UI when the old one had nothing broken. 1. FIX VOIP - The bug that causes VOIP to skip and break up (AKA Robot VOIP) is probably the most dangerous bug and the one that ruins my whole experience on this server the most. I believe this bug is caused when coming in close proximity to a group of players. For example going to the bank is a guarenteed way to replicate this bug. This bug is super dangerous, especially when trying to give callouts in a shootout, a few people come close to you and BOOM, you can't hear your radio anymore. 2. Phone improvements - The phone seems extremely outdated and clunky to use. This idea has already been suggested and +1'd by over 80 people. I'm not sure how this suggestion hasn't been considered for an update yet but this certainly should have taken priority over a scroll wheel UI. Suggestion post here: 3. Roadside repair - Recently mechanics have been taken away the ability to do roadside repairs on vehicles. Not sure why this was taken away, whether it was a bug or something I have no clue, but it should be added back. This is what I could come up with off the top of my head within 10 minutes. Please feel free to discuss in the comments. Thanks for reading

Apartments are a welcome addition but the removal of ID searching on MDC essentially breaks Forensics/IB. Now they have no way to tell if someone is lying in a /ldo unless you /report and ask an admin. Tell me when was the last time an admin replied to your /report in the first 5 minutes? I don't mind the scroll wheel addition but yeah I agree it's an addition that wasn't needed. The hitbox definetely needs to be bigger if this addition is kept. A quality of life improvement that 100% should take priority over this weird scroll wheel addition is the Phone improvements that were suggested here:

Nevermind just saw this post:

Personally I think the phone feels super outdated and clunky compared to everything else in the server. I think a simple search function for the phone to search through contacts would just be a huge quality of life improvement for the phone. Along with this suggestion might I also include group texts could also be something really useful for people who need to send out mass texts like frequencies, etc. Not sure if this has been suggested before, but I think this is a small change that can make a huge improvement. Thanks

Always had great RP interactions with you guys. Sad to see you go but I'm excited to see you in the future!

Harley's Birthday Bash The night before her birthday, Harley met Dimitri at [REDACTED]. They discussed business and what they plan on doing in the near future. After their conversation, Harley mentioned to D that she would be having a Birthday Party the night afterwards. "I assume you won't be there" she said to him, laughing. "I'll be around somewhere, don't worry. Happy Birthday Harley" D replied with a smile on his face. They shared a handshake and ended their meeting. May 10th 2020: It was Harley's Birthday, everyone together decided to get together and throw Harley a birthday party on Vespucci Beach. Everyone Harley considered to be family showed up at some point during the night, even some people she hadn't seen in years. With a trunk full of alcohol and gifts exchanged, everyone together decided to take a break from their daily duties, cool down and just chill together for a bit. The party lasted a while, people drank a lot, danced and showed off their most impressive vehicles and merchandise and just had a good time. When the party came to an end slowly, Harley stood near the shore and looked over at the group of her family. A single tear dropped from her eye and a smile grew on her face. Her family being together once again without a care in the world. Just enjoying each other's company took her back to simpler times, back when they could ignore politics and just sit back inside a garage and listen to Frankie play guitar and sing 'Wonderwall'. She turned around and faced the ocean. She wanted the sun set and saw a small silhouette standing on the pier far away. She couldn't recognise the face of the man but she had a good feeling. She smiles at the sight of the man, raised her drink slightly to signify 'Cheers' and downed her drink to finish off the night. "Here's to us D" she said quietly to herself. Harley moved from the beach and went back to business. ALL INFORMATION IN THIS POST AND ALL POSTS IN THIS THREAD IS OOC! No information or knowledge gained from this thread should be used IC. Anyone seen using this information ICly will be Metagaming.

Miss you lot

Loving the RP. Your posts are always so detailed and amazing. Looking forward to seeing you all more often

Harley Pavlovich The Navy Harley joined the Navy the second she got the chance when she was 16. She joined as an engineer apprentice and began to become more interested in working her way up the ranks to begin her career in Navy Command. She grew her career into the Fleet for the Navy of a ship named ‘Liberty’ after 5 years of service. After joining the Liberty, her career as a member of the Navy fleet took off, she started getting promotion after promotion from the Grand Admiral ‘Rabbit’, she became fascinated with title, status and the chain of command, she became very competitive with her colleagues. After years of service, she worked her way up to Admiral and was working towards the rank of Grand Admiral. To her surprise when promotions came up in a debrief, her colleague ‘Kiwi’ was promoted to Grand Admiral instead of her. She was filled with jealousy, and anger while Kiwi became very aggressive with his new found power. Whilst on route to a mission they were commissioned on by the UK Navy, Kiwi and Harley had an argument in the Barracks, an argument about who belongs in which rank which ended with no conclusion and bad blood left between the two. Kiwi with his new found power decided to invite Harley to the side of the ship to talk over their argument and come to a conclusion. Harley, naively accepted his invitation and met him on the side of the ship. Kiwi gestured for a handshake as she approached him. Harley went to accept the handshake when the next thing she knew, her arm was being pulled by Kiwi and she was being thrown overboard into the oceans of Los Santos. Kiwi ordered the ship to continue moving and to leave Harley overboard, assuming she would drown. The closest land Harley could see was Los Santos, so she swam towards the city until she became too tired. She decided to conserve her energy and focused on staying alive. She leaned back and floated on her back, listening to the water, waiting for somebody to find her or the waves to wash her ashore. What felt like years went by, but was probably around an hour, when finally a boat found Harley floating in the water. The boat had a russian family on board, they were the Pavlovich family. They offered Harley a hand and brought her back to land, to Los Santos. They brought her inside their home and offered her their home to stay inside while she became familiar with the city. This gesture really got to Harley. The Pavlovich family saved her life and offered her a place in their family, with nothing they are gaining from it. Because of this, Harley decided to change her surname to Pavlovich for her new life in Los Santos. Los Santos + Rooks Los Santos was a very scary place to Harley. She had never been outside of her small hometown as a civilian. After months of having nothing but guns pointed at her face and being robbed, she met a very interesting Ariadne Kouris. She was crying at Central MD. Harley decided to ask why Kouris was crying. They both became friends very quickly after an incident with a knife and a man named Stan. Kouris soon afterwards introduced Harley to The Rooks. This is the first organisation and family that she felt she belonged in since The Navy. Harley quickly applied, met Dmitri at a beach and became a Rook. Family Divided After years of being A Rook, Harley was informed about a meeting taking place at the docks of Los Santos. She was confused but went along with Ravyn, her new found closest friend. On the way to the dock, Harley and Ravyn discussed what the meeting was about. Her heart sank when she heard the words “They want Dmitri out”. Dmitri had been always there for Harley, a leadership role she looked up to and someone she depended on. The fact that her own family members would think something of the sort left her stomach turning on the way to the meeting. The Meeting Ravyn and Harley turned up to the Docks to see everyone she has ever called Brothers and Sisters stood in a circle shouting and arguing. Her eyes began to water as she braced for a difficult night. The meeting went on for hours, everyone in the family had their piece to say. When Harley finally thought the arguments might be over, the name “Gauge Michaels” came up in conversation. Immediately Harley’s confusion and sadness turned into Anger and Hate. She felt like she had just been thrown overboard into the freezing cold oceans of Los Santos once again. Her body was completely covered with goosebumps, her nose began to run, her eyes started to tear up. She began to scream at the group “How could you!?” she asked the people who she thought she could trust. “Rex you know what this man has done to us before. I can’t go through this again!” she screamed as she started to show her emotions had gotten the best of her. She walked further away from the group and sat with Johnnie Everdeen, who was crying in the corner with her. Broken The meeting concluded hours after it began. The sun rose as everyone began to slowly get in their vehicles and drive away to cool down. Harley decided it was best for her to drive to her home and sleep it off. She woke up the next day, she hopped on the radio with the little energy she had and asked how everyone was. She was delighted to hear Ravyn’s voice asking her to meet her somewhere so they could talk. Ravyn and Harley met in a secluded place and discussed how they think the Rooks will perform with Gauge Michaels running the show. Not to their surprise not a week went by before the Council started hitting Rooks once again. Harley didn’t have the energy to go through another broken state of The Rooks, she stayed in town and waited for Gauge and Jerzy to come back from a meeting with the Triads with what she hoped would be good news. Gauge and Jerzy returned 20 minutes later. Harley’s heart sank when she heard “They want The Rooks gone” As she had guessed, Gauge returning to the city to run The Rooks had not been successful, as she stated in the meeting. And just like that, her family fell apart around her. People who she called brothers and sisters were either killed, whether that was by others or themselves, or left to the Triads with the drop of a pin. "The Void left in their hearts" Harley hadn’t given up on her family though. The broken family she saw around her gave her inspiration and the wake up call she needed to bring back the commanding officer she was back in The Navy. She used all the time and energy she had whilst in the city to meet with everyone she knew was still alive. Jerzy, Ravyn, Jack and Randy all met with the intention of keeping The Rooks alive. They decided to stay together and run an organisation while they figured out where Dmitri was. The Void that was left in all of their hearts, where The Rooks used to live, inspired the name of this organisation. They decided they would run a Security business to keep their income stable and to keep the family alive and closeby. Where Ghosts Live A few weeks later, Harley was awoken by her phone buzzing beside her bed at 5AM. The phone number was unknown and she didn’t recognise it at all. Normally she would ignore these types of calls, but for some reason, she had a good feeling about this one. “Hello.” The person on the other side of the phone was a familiar voice. Her eyes immediately began to tear up as she sat up. “Dmitri!? You’re alive!” she said while trying to calm herself down. Dmitri replied bluntly: “I need to meet you. Make sure you’re not followed. I’ll see you where ghosts live” Harley immediately got out of bed, dressed and got on her bike. She drove as fast as she could, avoiding a police officer who attempted to pull her over nearby. She pulled into the location and walked up to a man she didn’t recognise. “Hi Harley” he said as she walked faster towards him. “We’ve missed you so much” Harley said as she went to offer D a handshake. They both quickly got back to business conversation and discussed how they can continue to run The Rooks, as they always wanted when they were founded. What's Next? Harley and Dmitri met once a week to begin working on The Void’s place in the great plan for The Rooks. What continues is their plan: The Void Security is and has always been a legal front group of The Rooks, publicly being led by Jerzy Mceden, Randy Berkowitz, Ravyn Leroy and Harley Pavlovich. The Rooks have gone into hiding and have fully transitioned into the weapon smuggling business. The public face of The Rooks is Dante Kalashnikov while Dmitri has changed his name and appearance and is pulling the strings from the background. With the dream market operating once more it’s safe to say the city will be feeling the presence of The Rooks much more. As an illegal empire attempting to operate in the shadows, The Rooks’ impact on the city is going to be less social and much more economical as we aim to fulfill our genre to stay away from ‘Street Gangs’ and pursue a different approach to crime, like The Rooks was founded to be. ALL INFORMATION IN THIS POST AND ALL POSTS IN THIS THREAD IS OOC! No information or knowledge gained from this thread should be used IC. Anyone seen using this information ICly will be Metagaming.

Ayyy! Thank you!!

Criminal RP 100% needs a buff. +1

Harley Pavlovich ------------ The Navy ------------ Harley joined the Navy when she was 16. She started as a mechanic/engineer apprentice and worked her way into the Navy command ranks as she grew. Harley was a fleet member of the Navy for as long as she can remember. She joined the crew of the ship ‘Liberty’ after 5 years of service. After joining the Liberty her career as a member of the Navy fleet took off, she started getting promotion after promotion from the Grand Admiral ‘Rabbit’, she became fascinated with power, title and status and became very competitive with my other fleet colleagues. After years and years she worked her way up to the rank of Admiral and was close to becoming Grand Admiral. To her surprise when promotions came around, her colleague ‘Kiwi’ was promoted instead of her. Kiwi was obsessed with power and was very competitive towards Harley. When they were commissioned on a mission overseas Kiwi threw Harley overboard and left without her. He left Harley for dead. The closest place she could find was Los Santos. ------------ Los Santos ------------ Los Santos was a scary place for Harley. She had never been anywhere outside of her hometown as a civilian. After months of being lost, guns constantly pointed at her face and being robbed, she met the wonderful Ariadne Kouris, who was crying, at Central MD who she would never guess would change her life. Kouris and Harley quickly became friends after an incident with a man named Stan and a knife. and then Kouris introduced Harley to the rooks. Finally a family Harley felt connected with again, just like the Navy, Harley quickly applied, met Dmitri at a beach and joined the Rooks. Ever since then she’s been a member of their family, they treat her well and she’s never been this happy since her Navy days.

Got my vote! You've always been there for me